[MEI-L] CfP 3rd International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology

[Frans Wiering]

Dear All,

The Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive
Musicology (ICCCM 2025) will take place at Aalborg University, Denmark, on
October 8–10, 2025. Following editions in Athens (2023) and Utrecht
(2024), ICCCM 2025 invites researchers to explore the intersection of
musicology, computational methods and cognitive science in advancing our
understanding of music and musical processes.

Call for Abstracts

Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology
(ICCCM2025)

Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, 8-10 October 2025

Key Information for Authors

Submission Types: Abstracts for oral presentations or posters
Submission Limits: max. 300 words
Submission Deadline: 15 June, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: 1 July, 2025

Submission portal: See conference website:
https://digital.musicology.org/icccm2025/

Publication: Accepted abstracts published online; extended papers
considered for a special issue of the Journal of New Music Research.


Conference Theme: "Getting to Grips with Musical Complexity"

This year’s theme encourages submissions addressing large and complex
musical works or insights from diverse digital music collections. We
especially welcome research using innovative computing paradigms (e.g.,
massive parallelism, quantum computing) to tackle challenges in musicology
and music cognition. However, as in previous years, we remain fully open
to any research that advances our understanding of music through
computational approaches.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Computational modeling of musical history using big data
Theories of musical structure implemented computationally
Computational approaches to the study of music perception and cognition
Automatic music transcription
Computational music analysis
Digital representation of musical information
Development and use of digital corpora for musicological research
Health-related applications of music computing
Computational ethnomusicology
Teaching computational and digital musicology
User experience design for musicological tools

ICCCM stands out for its focus on fundamental research rather than
application-driven perspectives, distinguishing it from conferences like
ISMIR, MCM, or ICMPC. Its small size and informal atmosphere make it
especially welcoming to early-stage researchers, who have been a
significant presence at past editions.

Submission Guidelines

We invite submission of abstracts (max. 300 words) for oral presentations
and posters, outlining research questions, methods, and contributions.
Submission Deadline: June 15th, 2025
Notification: July 1st 2025
Submission Portal: See conference website:
https://digital.musicology.org/icccm2025/

There will be a light-weight review procedure regarding match to the aim
of the conference, originality and quality of the proposal, and variety in
content. Since space is restricted, we will also take order of submission
into account.

Accepted abstracts will be published online, with authors invited to
submit extended papers for a special issue of the Journal of New Music
Research.


Travel stipends

Authors of accepted papers whose travel and accommodation will not be
funded by their employer or a grant and have no other source of funding to
cover the expenses they incur as a result of attending the conference, are
eligible to apply for a grant to help with covering these costs. There
will only be a limited number of these grants available and these will be
awarded on a first-come, first-served basis. If you would like to be
considered for receiving one of these grants, please include a short
statement with your submission, declaring that you do not have any other
source of financial support that would cover the costs of you attending
the conference. You will also need to supply an estimate of the total cost
of your trip, with relevant documentation (e.g., quotes from an online
travel agency).

Acknowledgements
The conference is generously supported by the Carlsberg Foundation, grant
CF24-2307.

Contact

Stay tuned to the conference website
(https://digital.musicology.org/icccm2025/) 
for updates.

For general queries regarding the conference, contact the conference
chair, David Meredith <dave at create.aau.dk>.

Queries regarding submission should be sent through EasyChair.

We look forward to your contributions to ICCCM2025!

On behalf of the Organising Committee,

Christina Anagnostopoulou


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Music Cognition, Computation and Community Lab
Department of Music Studies
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens